Posted in Thoughts on Apr 16th, 2008
I somehow found myself reading Roger Ebert’s review of a 1985 movie called Shoah. It is a documentary movie that is 9 hours long (if you can call that a movie.) It is mostly about the filmmaker interviewing people who worked in Hitler’s Concentration Camps (or people who were in position of observing what happened) […]
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Posted in Travel on Apr 9th, 2008
Day Zero:Meridiana “Simply Fly” 9:30pm: Florence Airport This is probably one of the smaller airports in Europe. In fact, I think all departures and arrivals are done in shuttle buses, but at least everything ran smoothly. I had some concerns with the airline I was flying with, the Meridiana, simply because I have never heard […]
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Posted in Travel on Apr 5th, 2008
Day One:Tower of London, National Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Trafalgar Square, and Westminster 1am: Hotel – Last Train to the City By the time I got to the hotel, it was almost 1am. My flight from Amsterdam to London got delayed for about an hour, and it took forever to park even when the […]
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